PAVLÍNA JANA LÖRINCZOVÁ

The collection of paintings is a silent dialogue with my great-grandmother. Her collection of pictures from pilgrimages was a small treasure to me when I was a child, I found them very beautiful. Later I learned that people used to put these pictures in the coffins of the deceased. Maturity gives one a different perspective and reveals the tastelessness of kitsch that the child does not perceive naturally...
Nevertheless, the fact remains that behind every picture there is a pilgrimage she made a journey she walked a place she visited. As if the story of her life and lived faith created a counterpoint to the superficial and sugary style. I am provoked by this contradiction and I lay the pictures in front of my eyes as a model for my paintings. In part, I reach back to childhood perception when intentionally putting aside the severe and critical view. But I am already looking behind rather than at the picture. I paint the motive tenderly, with kindness, thinking about the woman who was like this. Read more